.... 23 Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 #105, What a damn fine organ Stu!! I can think of about a thousand answers to that Paulus and none of them recordable here! Anyway, here's a local blogger's interpretation of some former local cinema's. The rest of the site is worth a look too, some interesting stuff there. http://tgc6266gmail....glory-days.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Nottingham has some excellent bloggers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 11 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Thomas The cinema at the bottom of Bath St opposite the park was called the Empress I used to go there in the early 1950s and the one further up St Anns Well Rd was the Cavendish Thanks lynmee, I went to both of them in the 50s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 We used to go round all the flea-pits trying to get in to see the X rated films. They would seem like comedies compared to todays standards. Must admit I had forgotten about the "Empress". There was one just on the West Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge, never knew it as a working cinema but remember playing on the demolition site when it was pulled down, the stuff we found there would have filled an antique shop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 There was one just on the West Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge, never knew it as a working cinema but remember playing on the demolition site when it was pulled down, the stuff we found there would have filled an antique shop. The Globe ? http://www.pictureth...003841&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Sorry no Cliff ton other side of tb just on the corner where you turned down for the trent end at Forest FC think the Outlaws bar may have been built there later. I went to both the Globe and the Grove in the Meadows when they were open, saw "love me Tender" at the Globe & "The Great Locomotive Chase". My memory is hazy about the Outlaws bar I know it was a large hotel built there with a bow front, bankrupted one company and another finished it. Just a quick look on google it might have been called "The Plaza" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted April 27, 2012 Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Don't think I'd ever seen this photo before, until I found it now..... http://www.pictureth...000313&prevUrl= Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted April 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2012 Might this be the one? The Tudor, Central Avenue, Bread and Lard Island http://tgc6266gmail.blogspot.co.uk/p/nottingham-cinemas-glory-days.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mgread1200 141 Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 Thats the one Cliff Ton they did nothing with the site untill much later than 55 with much of the foundations and lower building just left. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted April 29, 2012 Report Share Posted April 29, 2012 The cinema on the Wes Bridgeford side of Trent Bridge was definitely called the Plaza. Passed it every day for several years between RoT and Arnold High School. Even back then in late 50s, it was half demolished but the front entrance doors and surrounds still stood, complete with concertina steel gates across the entrance to what would have presumably the foyer etc. Remember the colour as blue and white and the space between the steel gates and the entrance doors weas full of rubbish. Funny how they left the entrance way standing for so long. Next door to the site was a driving school and next to that was a florist shop where I bought my Mum a hyancinth in a pot for her birthday or something. Forget what was next but just round the corner was Mansells. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted May 1, 2012 Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 I've found another photo of the Plaza Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poohbear 1,360 Posted May 1, 2012 Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 I can see the entrance to an Egyptian tomb...but where's the Plaza?... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 1, 2012 Report Share Posted May 1, 2012 It looks like a robot with its mouth open! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted May 2, 2012 Report Share Posted May 2, 2012 Here's another which hasn't been mentioned so far (apart from in Bamber's massive list on Post #35) The Imperial on Wilford Road; maybe a few memories for any ex-Meadows residents. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,488 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Drove along Sneinton Boulevard a few days ago and noticed the former Dale cinema has been demolished. It hadn't been a cinema since the 1950s, and in later years it was a factory, although still obviously a cinema from the outside. https://maps.google....186.47,,0,-4.59 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted August 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 I've often noticed this building on Middle Gate off Stodman Street that leads to the market place in Newark and wondered if it was an old cinema/ http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=newark+map&hl=en&ll=53.076388,-0.810604&spn=0.001234,0.002411&hnear=Newark-on-Trent,+Nottinghamshire,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=53.076328,-0.811183&panoid=FUQCBUolWTigYN1vA96OoQ&cbp=12,350.94,,0,-13.42 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Booth 7,364 Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Nice to see your post of 'The Dale' cinema, Cliff Ton (#130). I used to go there every Saturday morning when I was a kid. The surrounding area looks a bit different now, though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mudgie49 401 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 There were two cinemas on Beeston high street, within a few hundred yards of each other, the Palace and the Palladium. The last film I recall seeing at the Palace as a kid, was 'Reach for the Sky',with Kenneth Moore. I think they were converted into super-markets, or whatever. Can't remember them being demolished,while I lived in Beeston. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Excellent Beeston history site http://www.beeston-notts.co.uk/landmark_cinemas.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
barclaycon 569 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 Yes, excellent site that littlebro Thanks for posting. I enjoyed reading about the Essoldo - which I went to many times in the 70's. Great kind of 'art-deco' building. Sad to see it pulled down and replaced with an office block. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor S 2,003 Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 http://www.picturethepast.org.uk/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;PTPN001205&pos=10&action=zoom&id=92729 The old Savoy Stu....opened in 1935. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
.... 23 Posted August 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thanks very much, Trevor! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
radfordred 6,284 Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Sorry if it's already been posted? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Nice but the editing was a bit suspect. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SeanF 12 Posted February 4, 2013 Report Share Posted February 4, 2013 Interested to learn that they demolished the old Dale Cinema . . . I daren't ask what they plan to build on the site!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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